Description: Original Jean Oberlé etching signed by artist in pencil c. 1920 – 30s. From the Golden Griffin Gallery, NYC. Unframed. Etching size 7¾” x 5¾”; sheet 13” x 9¼”.

Jean Oberlé (1900 - 1961, Paris) was a French painter who became a member of the French Resistance. He illustrated a number of contemporary books and worked for different Parisian newspapers and magazines, of which the Crapouillot was the most important. He won the Prix ​​Blumenthal in 1934. During the WW II, he created many of the famous slogans of the BBC Free French broadcasts.

Provenance: The Golden Griffin Gallery/Arts Inc. operated in downtown Manhattan - New York City, New York from the 1950s to the 1970s. In the mid-1940s, Arts, Inc. was established as a publishing house specializing in European scholarly and artistic works. In the 1950s, Arts, Inc., the parent company, expanded to create, first, the Golden Griffin Bookstore, and then the Griffin Gallery, which dealt primarily with contemporary American and European artists. The Golden Griffin was known as the “Continental Bookstore” because of its stock of European titles.

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